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Standard I: Strategic Leadership

School executives will create conditions that result in strategically re-imaging the school's vision, mission, and goals in the 21st century. Understanding that schools ideally prepare students for an unsen but not altogether unpredictable future, the leader creates a climate of inquiry that challenges the school community to continually re-purpose itself by building on its core values and beliefs about its preferred future and then developing a pathway to reach it.

Standard 1a: School Vision, Mission, and Strategic Goals

Proficient: Works with others to develop a shared vision and strategic goals for student achievement that reflect high expectations for students and staff; maintains a focus on the vision and strategic goals throughout the school year.

Activities:

  • Worked with Belmont's School Leadership (SLT) and School Improvement (SIT) Teams on re-evaluating our school's mission, vision, and core values, and to develop a working knowledge of "How We Do Business Here"
  • Worked with Belmont's School Progress Management Team (SPMT) to help lead teachers and staff members in investigating the results of the 2012 NC Teacher Working Conditions Survey, and how to improve our school's areas of challenge in way that aligns with our strategic goals

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Standard 1b: Leading Change

Proficient: Works with others to systematically consider new and better ways of leading for improved student achievement for all students and engages stakeholders in the change process.

Activities:

  • Worked with administration to help implement and organize scheduling around a new district literacy and math program, SuccessMaker
  • Worked with administration and School Leadership Team to design and implement a school-wide bullying intervention plan, with clear steps for handling each offense and interventions/supports for both the bullied and the bully

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Standard 1c: School Improvement Plan

Proficient: Works with others to incorporate principles of continuous improvement and 21st century concepts into the School Improvement Plan; works with others to systematically collect, analyze, and use data regarding the school's progress toward attaining strategic goals and objectives.




Standard 1d: Distributive Leadership

Proficient: Works with others to create opportunities for staff to demonstrate leadership skills by empowering them to assume leadership and decision-making roles; works with others to encourage teachers and support staff to assume leadership and decision-making roles in the school.

Activities:

  • Worked with School Leadership and School Improvement Teams to decide on an avenue for my internship project's "Problem of Practice," as well as to encourage their decision-making around strategies to use throughout the process
  • Worked with administration and School Leadership Team to design and implement a school-wide bullying intervention plan; garnered and incorporated feedback from SLT to finalize all phases of this plan

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